Re: Cooking with Coal-- AJH? Crispin? John Davies?

["Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu>]

Tami,

Just a hunch, but I think that the "stackable" or "heat column" aspects of 
the Juntos stove might be of use to you for coal burning.

At very low cost, the lower (gasifier) unit will produce heat and flame the 
will all go upwards to some configuration of coal (chunks, holes, etc.) of 
different qualities.  The coal should start getting hot (absorb whatever of 
the heat from below that it can capture) and in theory should eventually 
start to burn.  The gases that come from the coal should rise in the heat 
column and (we hope) will be ignited with the heat/flame from the gasifier.

Once the coal is burning, the gasifier can be turned down to "low" or maybe 
even turned off, but it sounds like for coal to burn in "smallish amounts" 
it might need additional heat added continually.

This is from a novice, so perhaps someone can explain why it would not 
work.  But (if and) when I have time I will place coal into the 
"intermediate fuel unit" above a gasifier and see what happens.   If anyone 
can get to that stage before I do, go for it and please let us know what 
happens.

Illinois sits on coal fields, but I have not seen any available to purchase 
in years (but I have not been looking either.)

Paul

At 02:14 AM 2/28/02 -0800, Tami Bond wrote:

>Stovers & Especially Coalers,
>
>I have been playing with coal burning again. Can somebody tell me why
>anybody would cook with this stuff?!

Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D.,  Fulbright Prof. to Mozambique 8/99 - 7/00
Rotary University Teacher Grantee to Mozambique >10 mo of 2001-2003
Dept of Geography - Geology (Box 4400), Illinois State University
Normal, IL  61790-4400   Voice:  309-438-7360;  FAX:  309-438-5310
E-mail: psanders@ilstu.edu - Internet items: www.ilstu.edu/~psanders


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